Presentation Clichés
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Presentation Clichés How to avoid presentation embarrassments.
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If you're selecting visuals for your presentation, make sure you don't choose tired, old and over-used images. Take the time to find fresh, powerful images. This best practices presentation provides a list of examples and tips to help you avoid visual clichés in your presentation.
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Presentation!Clichés
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How to avoid presentation embarrassments.
Clichés !Business
are plentiful
Clichés !
turn-key solution
No Brainer
Bottom Line
Thinking Outside the box Win-Win
Get all our ducks in a row Value Added
Anything 2.0 Giving 110%
Push the envelope
Core Competencies
low hanging fruit
Paradigm
Your presentation can fall into the same cliché trap by
making the wrong stock photo choice.
If you don’t want your presentation to lay an egg, avoid the
following image clichés.
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Can you guess what the number one cliché image is?
The winner is...
The most over-used presentation image. As tired as the terms “partnership, win-win
and teamwork.”
This one is a close second to the handshake.
Thumbs up, thumbs down, high fives, fist
bumps… they’re all the same. If you want to be
cool like “The Fonz,” keep using this one.
Eyyy!
Also in the thumbs-up
family.
If you have to use “team” in your presentation, avoid images like this.
“You complete me.” But if you use this slide,
you won’t impress anyone.
They even have images for “Thinking
outside the box.” A double whammy
business cliché.
Using Stop Signs
Is he watching football or practicing virtual Yoga?
I used to like this image. I even put in
a “yelling” sound effect. Now I see it
everywhere.
Unless your message is spiritual, leave out the ripples and waterfalls
If you use an image like this, make sure you also play “Kumbaya” or “We are the World.”
This image is timeless. Meaning it’s been used for 15+
years. Find something else.
There are hundreds of stock images of stick-people to choose from. Which only means they are over-
used by others. Avoid using them if you can.
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Avoid taking screen shots of other people’s graphs and charts. Especially if they’re grainy and blurry.
Take a few more minutes and build your own.
An over-used image for “new ideas.”
Just create a slide for your new idea
and leave it at that.
The long road ahead... Don’t take it.
Do you know anyone that still uses a stylus pen with
their phone?
If you’re going to use a technology image, make
sure it’s current.
I retired this one last year. Using a target image is an obvious choice. Everyone knows what it means. Be creative and use some imagination.
If this image ever had any value for communicating
“winning the race,” Charlie Sheen blew it up with his over-
use of the term “winning.”
If you DON’T want your audience to see you as a new, inexperienced
PowerPoint designer, then go easy on the transitions, flips and fly-ins.
Clip Art
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You’re old and still use an E-XATO knife
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Bursts Banners
Can you say “Old School” or “Tacky?”
I will not fill my presentation slides full of clutter.
I will not fill my presentation slides full of clutter.
I will not fill my presentation slides full of clutter.
I will not fill my presentation slides full of clutter.
I will not fill my presentation slides full of clutter.
I will not fill my presentation slides full of clutter.
I will not fill my presentation slides full of clutter.
I will not fill my presentation slides full of clutter.
I will not fill my presentation slides full of clutter.
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I will not fill my presentation slides full of clu.
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When in doubt, leave it out.
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